“So, does anyone here have a bad breakup story besides me?” I ask the room. It’s the first time I’ve asked my audience to do something so revealing. I myself am used to emotionally undressing in front of the whole world. But others feel completely different, I know that. I feel a drop of sweat running down my neck: Will anyone dare? “No problem, I can wait,” I joke. A few pseudo-confident jokes later, a few people have actually found each other to talk about their broken loved ones. And at some point she gets in touch, a woman in her mid-20s. Let’s call her Charlotte.
“I am the best example of how karma will strike back sooner or later,” she begins. “And in my case, quite directly.”
Access to all STERN PLUS content and articles from the print magazine
ad-free
Already registered?
